text and direction: Bogna Burska, Magda Mosiewicz
performed by: Klara Bielawka, Marta Malikowska, Tomasz Nosiński (radio play), Anna Grycewicz, Izabela Warykiewicz, Piotr Trojan, Konrad Wosik (performances)
music and songs: Nagrobki – Maciek Salamon and Adam Witkowski
drawings: Maciek Salamon
presented at: Teatr na Plaży in Sopot, 2017; Konfrontacje Teatralne Festival in Lublin, 2017; Trafostacja Sztuki in Szczecin, 2018; the pavilion of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw at Open’er Festival in Gdynia, 2018
production: Emilia Orzechowska
photographs: Jerzy Bartkowski, Magda Mosiewicz, Bartek Stawiarski
radio play: https://encyklopediateatru.pl/przedstawienie/70391/koniec-przemocy
text published in: Dialog, a monthly magazine devoted to contemporary dramaturgy, no. 1, January 2017
https://www.dialog-pismo.pl/sites/default/files/biblioteka/koniec_przemocy.pdf
the text was a finalist for the Gdynia Drama Award in 2017
The End of Violence , a drama co-written with Magda Mosiewicz, is a proposal for a way out of the situation we found ourselves in a few years ago and which is now the case in many other countries – the complete polarization of societies around key issues, values, and state interests. In some countries, like Poland, it might be enough to introduce two passports, two legal systems, and two governments to stabilize the situation:
The proposal for a new system is simple.
No need to go anywhere, we live in the same territory, but we have two legal orders, two states.
We can choose the system of rules and applicable laws.
When we turn eighteen, we choose a passport, say yellow or blue.
You don’t like yellow? Okay, orange or purple.
Children get a passport like their parents’; once they come of age, they can change it.
The Orange have abortion rights, the right to marry regardless of sexual orientation, a ban on hunting, a ban on beating children, progressive taxes and an inheritance tax.
Violets have a ban on abortion, religion in schools, and jail for marijuana.
They have the right to refuse to work on Sunday, they have more church holidays off because they don’t celebrate May 1 and 3.
They have the right to own guns and a flat tax.
The bus lane issue will be decided shortly.
The End of Violence is an elaborate project for a utopian (dystopian?) solution to the problems which, while being conflictual because they depend on beliefs and social positioning, could potentially become the bloody beginning of a drama. Hence the title – however, the point is to prevent bloodshed, to prevent violence. At the same time, however, this has been yet another gloomy diagnosis by Bogna Burska, and a finally, though a perverse, removal of hope from those against whom the myths, culture, tradition, past, and – though most frequently by a hair’s breadth – the majority going to the polls, stand.
excerpt from the text Acts of Action by Joanna Krakowska, catalogue Blood and Sugar. Works 2000–2021, published by Gdańsk City Gallery, Trafostacja Sztuki in Szczecin, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, 2021
review: White Passports, Red Passports by Witold Mrozek, Dwutygodnik
https://www.dwutygodnik.com/artykul/7671-paszporty-biale-paszporty-czerwone.html